This was an existing site on a .com domain where the developer had disappeared. The original theme used thousands of lines of code spread over 43 different files and totaling 130KB, which would have made maintainence a nightmare. My version of the theme is less than 20KB and uses only seven files.

The site features the NextGEN gallery plugin, for which I made a custom template.

Search Engine Optimisation was important to the customer, and I am proud that searches like “slate roof tiles nz” and “clay roof tiles nz” rank the site at or near the top of search results.

Reputedly the world’s first on-line law journal, this publication’s original website was built in the 1990’s and urgently needed a major overhaul. In 2012 my daughter Judith and I imported all the content into a new WordPress site.

While some material is available to all visitors, most of the articles are only accessible to subscribers, who register and pay online via PayPal.

We faced the challenge of allowing automatic log-in for users at universities, government departments, and big institutions who purchase a site license. After some experimentation showed the way forward, we hired a developer to make a Plug-in to do this. This is the first WordPress site to allow this functionality, to my knowledge.

Employment Advocate .co.nz was built to promote David Flaws’ advocacy service. Logo is by brother Fane Flaws.

Client feedback: “You should be proud of the design – it is lovely and clean, it is fast and there is no clutter. People are continuing to send me congratulatory emails, and much of the credit rightly belongs to you. Please feel free to refer people to me for glowing testimonials, both as to your product and to your communication skills and patience in working to produce it. I have really enjoyed the process of working with you.”

Charles Fishman is a psychiatrist, specialising in Family Therapy, Adolescents and Eating Disorders. He is the author of a number of books, offers training and supervision to clinicians, and is engaged in long-term research on the effectiveness of eating disorder treatment.

Built for a voluntary community organisation, MENZ has over 270 registered authors and incorporates an automatic mailing list system for email subscribers. The site has received more than 35,000 comments from the general public.

Because of the subject matter, many of the contributors are highly impassioned and some are inclined to be abusive at times, like any other public internet forum of this nature. While there is no editorial control over what gets published (apart from a couple of users who are banned), I always respond to complaints as quickly as possible by removing offensive material.

POSH (Static HTML) Sites

On Demand Logistics provide relief driver services to NZ transport operators. They wanted a simple cost-effective site with an application form that could be sent to different regions. The design was provided by the client.

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This weekend we’ve been out on the West Coast again. Early on Saturday afternoon, we launched the kayaks at Cornwallis Wharf and paddled north along the cost towards Laingholm. Sadly, the wind caused just enough waves to make it relatively hard going, so we turned back at the end of Symonds Bay, and didn’t explore […]

Tomorrow (Dec 5th), the Auckland Council’s Environment and Community Committee will make a decision on proposals to combat the spread of kauri dieback, including possibly closing the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park. Mindful that it may be our last chance to visit this beautiful area, we went for a hike around the Montana Heritage Trail near […]

In between Pataua and Ngunguru is a river called the Horahora, on the NZ topographical map anyway. On Google Maps it is confusingly named Waitangi, despite the fact that there is much better known river with the same name in the Bay of Islands a bit further north. We were determined to get away for […]